But this requires a lot of energy and in fact it is just like refuelling for the winter.

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Winter, just like fellow ref Paul Durkin, has been forced to hang up his whistle having turned 45 last year.

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After just an hour the beach was a winter beach, cold and gray and the dead kelp like the hair of the drowned, and it stayed that way despite all attempts.

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Consider that when freestyle skier Sarah Burke died while training for the 2012 Winter X Games, her contemporaries honored her memory by throwing down stunts in a halfpipe just like the one that caused her death.

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